soal

From Middle English sol, sule, from Old English sol (“mud, wet sand, wallowing-place, slough, a mire or miry place”), from Proto-Germanic *sulą (“mire, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid, muck”). Compare sully. More at soil.

• sole

soal (plural soals)

1. (UK, dialect) Alternative spelling of sole

soal (plural soals)

1. Obsolete form of sole (the fish)

• soal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• ASLO, LAOS, LOAs, Laos, Loas, Salo, also, loas, salo, sola

From Malay soal, from Classical Malay سوٴال‎ (soal), from Arabic سُؤَال‎ (suʔāl).

• IPA^(key): /ˈso.ʔal/
• Hyphenation: so‧al
• Rhymes: -al, -l

soal (plural soal-soal, first-person possessive soalku, second-person possessive soalmu, third-person possessive soalnya)

1. question, problem, matter, point.
2. problem, difficulty, trouble.

   Synonym: masalah

3. (education) problem, question, exercise, paper.
4. concerning, about, regarding.

• (education): soalan (Standard Malay)

• “soal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Arabic سُؤَال‎ (suʔāl).

menyoal

1. to ask, to question, to interrogate

   Polis sedang menyoal suspek tentang rompakan itu.

   The police are interrogating the suspect about the robbery.

• tanya

• persoalan
• soalan

• Indonesian: soal

• “soal” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.